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of vertical fins covered -with very small bluish spots ; angles of 
caudal jet-black. Head 3 in length ; depth, 3-}. D. X, Hi ; A. Ill, 
8. Scales, 11-115-x. ] {Giinther.) Atricauda, 99. 
XX. Lateral line running high anteriorly, somewhat as in the Anihiince; one 
. about the fifth row of scales; caudal forked (Serranus). 
z. Lateral line running very high, on the fourth or fifth row of scales from 
below fourth dorsal spine to end of dorsal fin ; both dorsals and anal 
fin with smallscales; body elongate, compressed ; head acuminate, 
compressed, formed much as in SerrawMS scribn ; lower jaw strongly 
projecting ; anterior profile nearly straight ; preopercle finely serrate, 
the angle salient and with larger teeth ; top of head scaleless, the skin 
rugose; maxillary reaching ptast middle of eye, in bead ; canines 
strong ; mouth rather oblique, lower jaw projecting ; scales on 
cheek moderate, in about eleven series ; anal spines graduated ; 
pectorals rather long, If in head ; gill-rakers longer than in any 
other of the Serranince, about x -|- 15, the longest rather longer than 
pupiil. Color orange-yellow ; four or five gray longitudinal streaks 
across the head, about throe of which usually extend along the 
body ; body with dark cross-shades in the young ; vertical fins with 
blue spots. Head, 3 in length ; depth, 3f. D. X, 14 ; A. Ill, 7 or 8. 
Scales, 9-80 to 90-20 to 25 Cabrilla, 100. 
83. SERRANUS SUBLIG-ARIUS. 
Cmtropristis siibligarius Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 120, 1870 (Pensacola). 
Serranua auhligariua Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 238, 1882 (Gulf of Mexico) ; Jordan & Gil- 
bert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 274, 1882 (Pensacola); Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. N. Am., 
535, 1883 (Pensacola) ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 39, 1884 (Pensacola) ; Jordan, Cat. Fish. 
N. Am., 82, 1885. 
Serranua dispilurua Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 27 (Beaufort, N. C.). 
Serranua brasiliensis Jordan & Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, 269 (Charleston). 
Etymology. — Siibligarius, wearing’ a trass, iu allasion to the white cross-bau(l. 
Habitat. — South Atlantic coasts of United States. 
Our specimens of this species are from Pensacola, Charleston, and Beaufort, and 
they correspond to Centrojyristis subligarius Cope. All of them have the dorsal rays 
X, 13 (in one case XI, 13), and all have the inky spot on the soft dorsal large, and very 
conspicous. In these the pectoral is finely barfed, like the caudal fin. 
Gunther’s dispilurus, from Trinidad, is said to have the dorsal X, 12, the dorsal 
spot small, and the pectorals red ; otherwise the description agrees entirely with our 
s|)ecimeus. With the account of dispilurus the short description given by Cuvier and 
Valenciennes of Dales flaviventris is iu perfect agreement. 
One of the types of Brisout de Barueville’s Centropristis brasiliensis is preserved 
ju the museum at Paris, where it has been examined by us. This has the dorsal rays 
X, 12, the dorsal spot obscure and diffuse, but is otherwise similar to subligarius. All 
have the second anal spine long, the caudal barred, a white bar before anal, the caudal 
truncate, with other characters, which readily distinguish this species from all others 
related to it. W e feel little doubt, therefore, that subligarius, brasiliensis, and dispilurus 
are synonyms of flaviventris. If two species exist, subligarius, the northern form, would 
be separated from the flaviventris by its numberof dorsal rays — greater than that of any 
of the other species iu this division of Serranus-, by having the pectoral fin barred like 
the caudal, and the black spot on the dorsal very large. It is, however, probable that 
